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Bucs sign Kevin Carter

03-05-2007, 10:45 PM

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers signed former Miami Dolphins defensive end Kevin Carter to a four-year, $23 million contract Monday. Carter, 33, has notched 97.5 career sacks, including 11.5 quarterback takedowns as a Dolphin. In other news, the Bucs lost out on the bidding for Dallas C Al Johnson, who signed with Arizona Monday.

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I agree that it is probably a bit of an overpayment for Carter, but the d-line was one of the glaring problems last year. Carter should help, in the short term, improve the d-line's play.

I completely agree. Carter is on the decline, he's no longer the end he once was but he should be an upgrade at tackle. I believe that depth is really important for a good defensive line, to sub in and keep the starters fresh late in the game. Right now we barely have starters let alone backups.

In the draft its unlikely we'll get an impact DT. The only 2 good ones are going to be picked below us and even if CJ is gone I wouldn't pass on Adams for either DT.

"We're only going to score 17 points?" Brady said before chuckling about it. "OK. Is Plax playing defense? I wish he had said 45-42 and gave us a little credit for scoring more points."

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Sources have confirmed to PewterReport.com that Kevin Carter received NO signing bonus from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, which makes the signing of Carter much more reasonable and acceptable.

While on the surface, it appears that Carter's deal rivals the deal that of former Bucs DE Dewayne White, it is far from it. White received a $10 million signing bonus and has $2 million of his base in 2007 guaranteed. He has a total of $19 million guaranteed over the first three years. Carter has less than $3 million in guaranteed money as part of his $5.2 million base salary this year. Should the Bucs want to release him at any time after this year, there would be ZERO cap hit.

White wasn't re-signed because he only produced 14 sacks in 5 years and he didn't earn the right to a big deal from the Bucs last year when he started the last eight games (getting only 2 of his 5 sacks as a starter).